Involve

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To contain as a part; include.
  • v. To have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail: was told that the job would involve travel. See Synonyms at include.
  • v. To engage as a participant; embroil: involved the bystanders in his dispute with the police.
  • v. To connect closely and often incriminatingly; implicate: evidence that involved the governor in the scandal.
  • v. To influence or affect: The matter is serious because it involves your reputation.
  • v. To occupy or engage the interest of: a story that completely involved me for the rest of the evening.
  • v. To make complex or intricate; complicate.
  • v. To wrap; envelop: a castle that was involved in mist.
  • v. Archaic To wind or coil about.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  • v. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
  • v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  • v. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  • v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  • v. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.
  • v. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  • v. To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
  • v. Status: involved
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
  • v. To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
  • v. To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
  • v. To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
  • v. To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
  • v. To envelop, infold, entangle, or embarrass.
  • v. To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
  • v. To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To roll or fold in or wrap up so as to conceal; envelop on all sides; cover completely; infold; specifically, in zoology, to encircle completely: as, a mark involving a joint; wings involving the body.
  • To entwine; entangle; implicate; bring into entanglement or complication, literally or figuratively: as, an involved problem; to involve a nation in war; to be involved in debt.
  • To bring into a common relation or connection; hence, to include as a necessary or logical consequence; imply; comprise.
  • In arithmetic and algebra, to raise to any assigned power; multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times: as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. occupy or engage the interest of
  • v. have as a necessary feature
  • v. make complex or intricate or complicated
  • v. connect closely and often incriminatingly
  • v. engage as a participant
  • v. contain as a part
  • v. require as useful, just, or proper
  • Verb Form
    involved    involves    involving   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    absorb    engage    engross    occupy    complicate    rarify    elaborate    refine    include   
    Cross Reference
    voluble    involver    involute   
    Hyponym
    draw    cry out for    govern    cry for    take    exact    claim    compel    cost   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    entwine    surround    cover    hide    imply    complicate    entangle    implicate    embarrass    overwhelm   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    absolve    devolve    dissolve    evolve    resolve    revolve    solve